.my new joint.

.this semester i made a big move. from upstairs to downstairs. hehe. i got to move into a newly renovated unit and i love it. all the girls i live with are so awesome and so clean. (i got these pics from park she is sorta photo happy)

this is our kitchen and this is me. look mom i finally got my ankles back :)

this is our living room and our reggae chore chart.

this is park. she is korean but she wishes she was polynesian. and she loves tongan boys. the nice ones that is.
this is enna. she is tongan. she likes to party all night long. this is her coming back from wal-mart the morning after she left. hmmmm. oh and she signed our unit up to sing a song in sacrament meeting. bring out the ear plugs.
this is sui. she is from new zealand and we love her. and she clearly loves asians.
this is ashlin. she is the boss (our ra) she obviously is feeling the asian spirit too.
we have two more koreans. but i dont have a picture of them so they will have to wait.

.welcome to whitneys kitchen.

well my new hobby lately has been cooking. i hate doing it for myself. but if anyone will eat my food i wanna cook and make dessert and everything that you can put in your mouth. last sunday i made the oreo chocolates my mom had made and they were delicious. well that was the first 12 but when i melted more dipping chocolate the microwave went nuts and turned it to powder. hehe. we ate them undipped though and they were divine. today i woke up and made all the girls i live with german pancakes none of them had ever tasted them before so it was fun. for dinner i decided i HAD to have cafe rio. so i invited syed and park to eat at my place for dinner and i made the sweet pork (i used beef) black beans and mexican rice. it was sooooo yummy and the recipe i used tasted just like the real stuff. mmm. here are some fun photos from the events.

enna looks so scary behind me. this was about 2 am and i was pretty excited to be using an actual blender!


sui enjoying her very first german pancake.

the burritos i made for dinner.

.okay one more.

2 posts in one day. i was just thinking about some stuff and i wanted to share.

first thing. when i woke up this morning i realized it was September 11. i still remember walking into school and seeing the terrorist attack on the tv screen. my classmate said it was an accident. how would things be different if it was an accident and no evil was behind it. i dont know.. when i was walking to the school of education i noticed the flag wasn't flying at half mass. did they seriously forget? i know there was no moment of silence to remember the victims and their families. no mention of it through my entire day in classes. pretty pathetic in my opinion.

Next, has anyone else noticed that so many people are dying or getting terminal illnesses. My teacher and i were talking about it and she told me i better repent just in case i am next. haha. despite the seriousness we were cracking up. i hope no one close to me gets caught in the trend. it is so sad to hear of young people passing away :(

Third, i want everyone to know that i have become a nicer person. just in case i die i want to get to heaven. no just kidding. but it was quite funny. today i walked into my room and i realized that my roommate had put her book on my bed. and i didn't think anything of it because her desk and my bed are right next to eachother so she put it there while she typed. normally i would have freaked out and probably thrown her book on to the floor. hehe. beast master. but i didn't even think anything of it untill a bit later when i was like woah. i didn't even care and it was on my BED. i think i have realized to ignore stupid little things. finally. lucky for my roommate huh.

Forth, i just want to say "god bless the american housewife" holey schmokes. cooking, cleaning, laundry are getting so annoying to me. haha. at first i thought cooking was kinda fun. well it still is. but not when i am just cooking normal food. hence i have been eating a lot of cereal soup yogurt. etc... everytime i cook or clean i sing that song and it makes me feel a little better.

Amen amen. that is the end of my random thoughts.

.for jenny.

.jenny wanted a post so here it is. i have been so busy lately i hate it. monday i teach. tuesday i go to methods classes from 8 to 3 wednesday i go to teach and then rush back to get to my classroom management class from 3-6 thursday i go to methods classes and seminar 8-430 and friday i go to teach. and when all of that is done i have to study and plan lessons. lately i have been so sleepy and actually felt a little sick thank goodness tomorrow is friday. my students are so funny though. here are a few examples. we were talking about what our parents do for work and one of the boys said. my mom owns a condom. of course he meant condo. all the teachers in the room and the students who know what a condom is were dying laughing. the funniest part is he had no idea why we were laughing at him. on a sweeter note. when i taught stylistic elements on wednesday the cutest boy in the class put "my mom is a sweet cookie" for his metaphor. i told him if i have a son. i hope he is so nice. haha. what else. tomorrow is my half way point. can't believe it. and today i got my graduation activities itinerary. i kinda felt sick. i am not really sure i am ready to graduate yet. haha. "some people go to school for 7 years. yeah they're called doctors" i guess i will be done for a while. i will order my graduation announcements tomorrow. so real life here i come.

.quick update on the banana bread.

.well after making the bread yesterday i was stuck on homework for 7 straight hours. as a result i didn't have time to cook anything for dinner so what did i do. oh just ate about half a pan of banana bread. today i was rushing to get to 8 1/2 straight hours of class so what did i do. ate about a quarter of the pan of banana bread. and lunch was the rest -2 pieces which are calling my name from the fridge. well. despite the greatness of the bread i actually feel quite sick. when i went running tonight i could taste it :( and because i have been eating pretty much nothing but fruit and yogurt and tortillas the overindulgence of the bread is not being very nice to me. i feel bloated. heheh.

and by the way. this girl is getting a wisdom tooth and it hurts :(

the end. of this post and the bread :)

.just call me betty crocker.

.when i saw that my bananas had turned black i decided it was time to learn how to make banana bread. that was when i came to the realization that i had no bread pans. when i told my mom i was going on a search for some she suggested i use a cake pan. genius. absolutely genius. so i got cookin. i decided to mix a few recipes to make the perfect banana bread and it was in fact. a huge success. amen. amen.
p.s. i did NOT burn it as it may seem. that is a cinnamon & sugar mixture. mmmmm.

.lightning reaction revenge.

.i was introduced to this bizare game at my friend mika's house over the weekend. the goal of the game is to NOT be the last one to push the button on your handle when the music stops. if you ARE the last to push the button you get a not so friendly shock. i was so anxious when we played that i accidentally pushed the button before the music stopped and i got shocked. it scared me so bad that i threw my handle haha. oops. it is so much fun. i want it.
.also while i was at ala moana over the weekend i found one of the most amazing games. bananagrams. i have been looking for this game forever and i finally stumbled upon it at barnes and noble. yay.